Resumen

MOREAU, Delphine. Conjuring up the qualification of violence: justifications and practices of the resource of coercion in psychiatric hospitalizations. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2009, vol.15, n.3, pp. 01-21. ISSN 1677-1168.

Hospitalization without consent is in the core of accusations against Psychiatry as it exerts illegitimate coercions, a criticism often expressed by professionals in the area themselves. With around 13% of the hospitalizations carried out in two modes defined by the Law dated June 27, 1990 - office hospitalization and that resulting from a third party’s demand - the exercise of coercion is an integral part of psychiatric treatment and may include reclusion in isolation rooms, administration of treatments and other coercions related to hospitalization conditions (clothing, visits, recommendations, etc.). Based on interviews with various categories of professionals (doctors, nurses and technicians), as well as on ethnographic observations in psychiatric urgency services and in one hospitalization service, we analyzed, by means of a comprehensive approach, the way professionals justify the use of coercion and define its limits, so as to evade the qualification of violence.

Palabras clave : psychiatric hospitalization; coercions; justifications.

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